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Sconce in two places, and Storming the lame for two hours together, loft four 

 hundred Men, which made him draw offa little before Day-brcak. 



In the interim nine Privateers, fitted out by fcveral Merchants of Holland and 

 Zealand, came to Cruife up and down before the Coaft of Srdjile 5 which the States 

 the rather allowed of, bccaufe the IVeJi-India Company was not able to fend any 

 more Supplies thither : Nor was it long ere they took five Vortuguefe Prizes, and 

 afterwards (joyning with Bankert) four more laden full of Sugar, in the Haven To. 

 dos los SanBos, where they threw a hundred and twenty Tortuguefej and fifty revolted 

 Hollanders overboard. 



%eciffa being at that time rcduc'd to very great ftraits, earneftly implor'd Aid 

 from the States, but to little purpofe, by reafon of the Differences amongft them- 

 felves, which hapned upon this occafion : The Spanijh King by his Agent in the 

 Hague made Overtures of Peace, and proffer'd to fall upon the Tortuguefe in <Brafile : 

 to which Propofition, whenas the reft of the States ieem'd inclinable, thofe of Zea- 

 land would no ways hearken, being refolv'd to have nothing to do with Spain, The The Council 

 news of this Diflention exceedingly perplex d the Council at \eciffa y efpecially <^v£* 

 when to that news was added, that Bankert, the onely terror to the Enemy at Sea, to*£!&i , 

 was Commanded home by the States of Zealand, which yet the General States ftri&ly o» rfthc 

 forbad. Whereupon they thought fit to fend one of their AtTembly to the Ha<rue y Phcc ' 

 to make the States acquainted with the miferable Condition of *Brafile ,znd to Expo- 

 ftulate with them for their infenfibilicy of their Condition, and to let them under. 

 ftand, that ten thoufand Men would not rcftore Brafile to its former Condition : 

 Every one ftrove to be the Meffenger of thefe fad tydings, but efpecially their Pre- 

 fident Schonenbergh wifh'd it might be his lot to leave the unhappy Countrey of 

 fBrafile. y but bccaufe his departure would not have been without great murmuring 

 of the People, Haeks was fent in his ftead. Together with him went Hinder/on (who 

 was in no efteem fince the Deftru&ion on <I(io Grande rf they both Embarqu'd on 

 Hiankert's Ship and five others, which in ftead of being laden with rich Commodi- 

 ties, and ballafted with Sugar, as heretofore, were fraught with difcontentcd Sea. 

 men, decrepid and fick Soldiers, unferviceablc Jews, poor Travellers, fortuguefe 

 Prifoners, and onely ten Weeks Provifions i whereas all other Veflcls at their Re* 

 turn from !BraJile us'd to have Provifion for three Moneths, which at this time 

 could not be fpar'd. The Council alio made Orders what Perfons fhould go with 

 the fore-mention'd Ships, Yi^* None but thofe whofe Names Were written in the 

 Lifts which had ftuck fix Weeks at every Church Door, that by that-means no Cre- 

 ditor might fufFer by his Debtors going away, nor any Criminal efcape his defer- 

 ved punilliment. Sankert had fcarce been a Week at Sea, when he dy'd of the Palfie : *«*«•* 

 he was a Man, who for his valiant Exploits was from a Fore-maft Man preferr'd character. 

 to be Captain ; which Office he perform'd with great Prudence and Valor ;. but 

 that which firft made him moft eminently taken notice of, was his Engaging with 

 thirteen Dunkirkers, of which he funk three, and being boarded by three more, and 

 fir'd at by the reft, he refus'd to furrrender his Ship on promife of Quarter, but 

 plac'd his eldeft Son with a lighted Match in the Powder-room, commanding him 

 on pain of Death to blow up the Ship with the three Dunkirkers as foon as he gave 

 the Word ; which valorous Refolution fo amaz'd the Enemy, that they let him go. 

 He alfo behav'd himfelf bravely in the QoDms againft the Spanijh Admiral Oquendo. 

 His two Sons that were prcfent when he gave up the Ghoft, would not have his 

 Body thrown overboard, notwithftanding it ftunk fo intolerably, that all the Pro- 

 vifions in the Ship were tainted by it } therefore taking out his Entrails, they 

 Salted the Body, wrapt it up in four Sail-cloths,and nailing the fame up in a pkchy 



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